"Oh woops, didn't realize you were on Team Whites, too!"
The US military shooting down that CBP drone yesterday:
Very on board with hating Erika Kirk, but as far as I can tell this particular allegation is all based on online rumors.
Erka Kirk is a heinous monster, but there really doesn't appear to be any substantive evidence of this.
Romanian officials haven't had anything bad to say about her work, and she has not been banned from the country.
www.snopes.com/news/2025/09...
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Utterly remarkable woman. Glad she's okay.
But none of that influences your worth as a person. One follower or one thousand doesn't matter. You're already an artist, and that fucking rules.
And if you keep doing that, getting better, somewhere along the way people will see yoh and admire your work.
I don't draw, but I do write things. I think you have to learn to appreciate the process, the things you're working on, the satisfaction of trying to translate what's in your head on the page.
You're great at drawing the characters on-model to the show's style, which not a lot of people do, and you've got a good handle on color! Your recent one under the aurora borealis is very pretty! You'll get even better over time, I know it.
I understand that desire for people to appreciate your work, too! Please don't get discouraged. The algorithm makes no sense and will disappoint you.
I feel that. Sometimes I've got all these incredibly bleak and frustrated thoughts and I have to be like, "see how you feel once you get home and you've laid in bed for a bit."
It is surprising how transient our emotions are. It's sort of like weather: rainy days do not last too long.
Don't worry, it's fake. The account is full of these little 'proof of concept' app screenshots
Yes, I would also really like to see a link, I cannot seem to find an article on it.
Please don't feel silly if you change your mind! That's living.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds (...) Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today." - Ralph W. Emerson
Helminski renders him absolutely beautifully. It's a little hard for me to fully jive with Rumi because so much of his work is intensely religious and almighty-focused, and I'm very much not, but there's a lot of charm and wisdom and warmth in his writings. Happy new year!
+ silly shit helped saved my life. We need to cultivate more beautiful nonsense in our lives.
As for Rumi, I adore Kabir Helminski's translation for Shambhala. The little mini-book format gives us lots of short, powerful segments that were nice gateway poetry for my stunted attention span.
Which is what I really needed. I had to make some really hard decisions early 2025 out of a genuine fear that if I didn't habe an escape route We Were Going to the Camps, and it made me feel more like a caged rat than a human being. Consciously choosing to continue believing in love and art and +
Seconding the idea of poetry as deeply important to this whole thing. Earlier last year when I was flailing at the anti-trans hell,, poetry was the thing that nourished and calmed me when info--news articles, theory--only made me feel sicker. Poetry works on the level of shifting emotion,
We are all rooting for you.
Living up to the BlueSky handle lmao
I am fucking riveted by this storyline.
You look like *you.*
(Also like three or four different cis dudes I know, that haircut is doing wonders for you honestly)
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That is a horrifying message to receive. Can people not just be n o r m a l about Jewish people? Good grief.
Kick ur dysphoria's ass bro.
This was incredibly brave of you to post and it resonated with so many of my own feelings around the time I transitioned. Yes, even the faceapp.
May, I'm just some random internet lurker lady.
But I want you to know that reading what you have to say is a comforting part of the day.
Please live, out of spite if nothing else.
Your presence makes the world a little more bearable for everyone else.
Congrats! 🏳️⚧️
